COOKBOOKS AND NUTRITION PRACTICES IN SOVIET WOMEN’S EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE 1960s Cover Image

КУЛИНАРНЫЕ КНИГИ И ПРАКТИКИ ПИТАНИЯ В СОВЕТСКОЙ ЖЕНСКОЙ ПОВСЕДНЕВНОСТИ 1960-х
COOKBOOKS AND NUTRITION PRACTICES IN SOVIET WOMEN’S EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE 1960s

Author(s): Olga Dimitrievna Popova
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Social history, Family and social welfare, Rural and urban sociology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Migration Studies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: cookbooks; social transformations; everyday life; gender roles; rural-to-urban migration; appeals of citizens;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines cookbooks and nutrition practices during the Khrushchev period. They became a vivid reflection of the contradictory steps taken by the authorities in social policy. At that time, official propaganda assigned a dual function to women: a participant in social production and a keeper of the hearth, who was supposed to run the household economically and efficiently. In conditions of increasing needs of society and growing shortages, cookbooks set the task of simplifying the organization of everyday life. For the first time, cookbooks were addressed to residents of rural areas; they declared the opportunity to have a small personal farmstead, which was in conflict with the ideas of collective farm construction of the 1920-30s. However, the authorities viewed the collective farmer‘s individual farm and garden plots only as an auxiliary element in solving pressing problems.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 120-139
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Russian
Toggle Accessibility Mode